Houston Independent School District



Parker Elementary

10626 Atwell

Houston, Texas 77096

713-726-3634

Parker Elementary School’s Parent Involvement Policy 2016-2017

In order for students to be successful, parents or guardian must be actively involved in their child’s education. Parker Elementary developed this policy to describe how we involve parents in the development of policy and the School-Parent Compact. This policy was developed with the assistance and approval of the student’s parents who are participating in the Title 1 Program.

Policy Involvement: Each year, parents of children who participate in the Title 1 Program are invited to meetings. Monthly meetings are held on various days and times giving parents a choice of meetings to attend. At the meetings, we discuss the Title 1 law, its requirements, and the rights and benefits to parents of involved children.

Program Involvement: At this meeting, and throughout the school year, we provide timely information about our Title 1 programs, including reading/math tutoring, counseling, extended day, after-school programs, and magnet classes to parents of participating children. We describe the curriculum and explain how student performance is measured. We explain how each individual child and our school as a whole are doing on state tests such as the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) and other measures of performance. We hold PTO, Shared Decision-Making, and Parent Advisory Committee (PAC) meetings to respond to parent needs and concerns.

School-Parent Compact: The school-Parent Compact was developed jointly with parents of participating Title 1 students. It explains how parents, school staff, and the student will all share responsibility for each student’s academic success.

Building Capacity for Involvement: It is Parker Elementary School’s role to teach parents how to help their children learn. One way of doing this is by explaining education laws. Parents are given information about the district, state and national education goals, Title 1 requirements, Texas content, and performance standards such as Texas Essential Knowledge Skills (TEKS) and STAAR.

Parent Training and Involvement: Presentations are designed to help parents learn how their child is doing, how parents can work with educators to help their children, and how to be involved in decision-making about the education of their child (ren). Materials and training are provided to help parents assist their child’s needs such as: School-Wide Open House Night, PTO Meetings, PTO Family Nights, Title 1 Parent Meetings (PAC), Bilingual Parent Workshops, Performing Arts concerts and Workshops, Funfest, Book Fair Night, POPS Concert, Field Day, Literacy/Math Night, Solo and Ensemble Festival, Lions Reading Den, Enrichment Club Showcase and GEM Awards.

Our school strives to coordinate parental involvement activities among the different programs available on our campus. Shared parental involvement activities are sponsored for Title 1.

The development of school-business partnerships that include activities for parents is encouraged. Community-based organizations and businesses are given information about working parents. We contact various businesses, churches, and other organizations such as, Westbury Baptist Church, CiCi’s Pizza, Golden Corral, Los Tíos, Gugliani’s, Wal-Mart Market, Astros, HEB, Chick-Fil-A, Stripes Gas Station, McDonalds, Rotary Club of Houston, AFA, Alligent Group, Eye Care For Kids and VSP Global, Empyrean Benefits Solutions.

Accessibility: Participation and involvement of all parents is important. Information related to student achievement, school performance, school and parent programs, meetings and other opportunities for participation is sent home in the home language whenever possible.

This School Parental Involvement Policy has been developed jointly with and agreed on with, parents of children participating in Title I, Part A Programs.

This policy was adopted by Parker Elementary and will be in effect for the 2016-2017 school year.

Helen Brook Lori Frodine

Instructional Coordinator Principal

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